Actress Donna Douglas turns 80 today, according to the Associated Press. (Other sources say she's 79.) Regardless, the actress who played Elly May on "The Beverly Hillbillies" is now older than Granny was on the show.

1) Douglas was the hideously deformed woman in a "Twilight Zone" episode titled "In the Eye of the Beholder," where she wasn't deformed at all — at least to us humans.

2) Her only starring film role was in "Frankie and Johnny" in 1966, opposite Elvis Presley.

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